I don't have tremendous physical vitality since I had a neck operation, and I'm more aware than I used to be of the tedium of acting.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

I didn't speak English until I was ten, when Philip Burton, the schoolmaster who became my guardian, took me under his wing.

Warren Beatty seems very self-conscious and actory.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

I've made more millions than I can count. But you know, it's a faerie gold -- the tax people take most of it, and the rest goes to people you need to stay alive, places to live, conveyances to get from here to there.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

Every word I write I suspect the next day.

What an extraordinary world it is.

One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy.

You reach the top of the heap, but it's a circle, and you slip on the down side, maybe for years. You get scared.

I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

Anyone can play Henry VIII. I mean, even Robert Shaw... has played it.